Water Ceremony

Water has a living consciousness. It is a carrier of memory and a mirror of emotion. It forms a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.

In this ceremony we enter into relationship with water as a sacred being that listens, receives, and responds.

I invite you to take a bowl or a cup of water. 

Begining by slowing down and truly arrive. We take time to listen inwardly. To feel what is alive in your body, your heart, and spirit at this moment. 

You can start with this prayer of the water:

“I honour the spirit of the water for water is within me, water and I are one

I honour the spirit of the water for without water there is no life.

I honour the spirit of the water for the way water cleans and heals. 

I honor the spirit of the water for the holy circle in which water travels, from snowflake that falls on the mountaintop, melts into the creek, that flows into the river, that finds her way to the sea, the sea becomes the ocean where wind comes it takes the drop that becomes the cloud back to the mountaintop where the snowflake falls. “

Or you may improvise by whispering words softly into the water.
You may sing to it.
You may breathe into it.
You may hold the cup close to your heart and allow your intention, your grief, your gratitude, or your longing to move through your hands and into the water itself.

The invitation is not to perform, but to be in genuine relationship.

As we breathe, sing, pray, and listen, the water becomes infused with intention. With remembrance. With presence.

After this, we consciously drink the water. Slowly. Receiving the prayer back into our bodies. Allowing the body to become part of the ceremony itself.

A small portion of the water is then returned to the earth as an offering. To the soil, a tree, a river, lake, or ocean. A gesture of sacred reciprocity. A remembering that what we receive must also be given back.

This is a simple but deep ceremony if you genuinly connect with the spirit of the water and allow it to touch the emotional body. Water has a way of softening what has become hard. Opening what has been held. It is returning us to humility, connection, and soft flow.

If you wish you may wish to close with this invocation:

Spirit of the water please awaken, please overlight my work so I may know your will and your ways.